The following Construction incident summaries are based on information obtained as soon as possible after the incidents: they are preliminary and subject to change. Details have been edited to protect workers’ privacy.
Core Activity: Concrete placing / concrete pumping / Commercial, institutional or highrise residential contracting or construction
Location: Interior B.C.
Date of Incident: 2023-Dec
ID Number: 2023186420030
A worker was preparing to place concrete on the second-level slab of a commercial construction site when they were struck twice by the hose of the boom pipe (25 feet long, 3 inches in diameter).
Injury Type: Undetermined injuries
Core Activity: Low slope roofing
Location: Vancouver Island/Coastal B.C.
Date of Incident: 2023-Dec
ID Number: 2023199250035
A worker was installing the ridge cap of a metal roof when they fell about 16 feet to grade.
Injury Type: Multiple fractures
Core Activity: Painting or wallpapering
Location: Lower Mainland
Date of Incident: 2023-Dec
ID Number: 2023167730018
A worker was on an extension ladder painting a room’s interior when the ladder slipped out and the worker fell.
Injury Type: Burns
Core Activity: Electrical work
Location: Lower Mainland
Date of Incident: 2023-Dec
ID Number: 2023155500018
As a worker was securing the cover panel to a 600-volt junction box, a screw contacted one of the interior electrical conduits and an arc flash occurred.
Injury Type: Undetermined injuries
Core Activity: Concrete reinforcing
Location: Lower Mainland
Date of Incident: 2023-Dec
ID Number: 2023198150011
After returning from break, a worker went to retrieve their tools. As they walked across the work area, they stepped onto a tarp covering an unguarded floor opening in the suspended slab. The worker landed on the deck 9 feet below.
Injury Type: Possible fractures
Core Activity: Industrial, commercial, institutional or highrise residential or construction
Location: Interior B.C.
Date of Incident: 2023-Dec
ID Number: 2023160850036
A worker was climbing a concrete formwork wall, using a work positioning restraint system. As they were transferring from one anchor point to another, they fell about 10 feet to grade.
Injury Type: Injury to leg
Core Activity: Drywalling or acoustic board installation / Industrial, commercial, institutional or highrise residential contracting or construction
Location: Lower Mainland
Date of Incident: 2023-Dec
ID Number: 2023155070027
A worker was elevated on stilts, applying drywall joint compound. A mud-covered glove lying on the ground caused them to slip and fall about 3 feet to the concrete floor.
Injury Type: Injuries to back and hand
Core Activity: Structural concrete forming / House or other wood frame contracting, construction, or renovation work
Location: Lower Mainland
Date of Incident: 2023-Nov
ID Number: 2023197940004
A worker was dismantling a gang form column panel. One side had been dismantled the day before, after the concrete had been placed. As the worker removed the last of three lateral bracings, the panel detached from the concrete and fell onto the worker.
Injury Type: Undetermined injuries (1 worker)
Core Activity: House or other wood frame contracting, construction, or renovation work
Location: Lower Mainland
Date of Incident: 2023-Nov
ID Number: 2023166920005
Three workers were trying to stand a wood framed wall (made of 2×8 lumber; about 14 feet long and 10 feet high). The workers lost control of the wall, causing it to fall backward, injuring one of the workers.
Core Activity: Power pole, powerline, or transmission line installation, service, or repair
Location: Vancouver Island/Coastal B.C.
Date of Incident: 2023-Nov
ID Number: 2023192870026
Wind conditions caused a fir tree to partially pull down power lines. The tree and lines remained suspended above the ground, with the tree resting on the lines. Two workers were in an elevating work platform, bucking the tree from about 15 feet back of where it lay on the lines. The holding wood snapped from the heavy bind, and the top end of a 15-foot section of the tree flipped back and onto the workers. The workers remained pinned in the work platform until rescued.
Injury Type: Fatal (1 worker)
Core Activity: House or other wood frame general contracting, construction, or renovation work
Location: Interior B.C.
Date of Incident: 2023-Oct
ID Number: 2023143950047
A worker who was working alone at a residential construction site was found unresponsive in a basement. The fire department attended and identified carbon monoxide in the area.
Injury Type: Close call
Core Activity: Concrete pumping
Location: Lower Mainland
Date of Incident: 2023-Aug
ID Number: 2023161950005
During the placement of concrete, a structural failure occurred between the third and fourth sections of the placing boom of a concrete pump. A fourth hydraulic cylinder, supporting the fourth boom section, became detached causing the fourth and fifth sections of the placing boom, including a flexible rubber hose at the discharge end, to fall uncontrolled to grade. Several workers were in the immediate work area but no injuries occurred.
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